"Dear Kryon, I have heard that you should stay natural and not use the science on the planet for healing. It does not honor God to go to a doctor. After all, don't you say that we can heal with our minds? So why should we ever go to a doctor if we can do it ourselves? Not only that, my doctor isn't enlightened, so he has no idea about my innate or my spiritual body needs. What should I do?"

First, Human Being, why do you wish to put so many things in boxes? You continue to want a yes and no answer for complex situations due to your 3D, linear outlook on almost everything. Learn to think out of the 3D box! Look at the heading of this section [above]. It asks which one should you do. It already assumes you can't do both because they seem dichotomous.

Let's use some spiritual logic: Here is a hypothetical answer, "Don't go to a doctor, for you can heal everything with your mind." So now I will ask: How many of you can do that in this room right now? How many readers can do that with efficiency right now? All of you are old souls, but are you really ready to do that? Do you know how? Do you have really good results with it? Can you rid disease and chemical imbalance with your mind right now?

I'm going to give you a truth, whether you choose to see it or not. You're not ready for that! You are not yet prepared to take on the task of full healing using your spiritual tools. Lemurians could do that, because Pleiadians taught them how! It's one of the promises of God, that there'll come a day when your DNA works that efficiently and you will be able to walk away from drug chemistry and the medical industry forever, for you'll have the creator's energy working at 100 percent, something you saw within the great masters who walked the earth.

This will be possible within the ascended earth that you are looking forward to, dear one. Have you seen the news lately? Look out the window. Is that where you are now? We are telling you that the energy is going in that direction, but you are not there yet.

Let those who feel that they can heal themselves begin the process of learning how. Many will be appreciative of the fact that you have some of the gifts for this now. Let the process begin, but don't think for a moment that you have arrived at a place where every health issue can be healed with your own power. You are students of a grand process that eventually will be yours if you wish to begin the quantum process of talking to your cells. Some will be good at this, and some will just be planting the seeds of it.

Now, I would like to tell you how Spirit works and the potentials of what's going to happen in the next few years. We're going to give the doctors of the planet new inventions and new science. These will be major discoveries about the Human body and of the quantum attributes therein.

Look at what has already happened, for some of this science has already been given to you and you are actually using it. Imagine a science that would allow the heart to be transplanted because the one you have is failing. Of course! It's an operation done many times a month on this planet. That information came from the creator, did you realize that? It didn't drop off the shelf of some dark energy library to be used in evil ways.

So, if you need a new heart, Lightworker, should you go to the doctor or create one with your mind? Until you feel comfortable that you can replace your heart with a new one by yourself, then you might consider using the God-given information that is in the hands of the surgeon. For it will save your life, and create a situation where you stay and continue to send your light to the earth! Do you see what we're saying?

You can also alter that which is medicine [drugs] and begin a process that is spectacular in its design, but not very 3D. I challenge you to begin to use what I would call the homeopathic principle with major drugs. If some of you are taking major drugs in order to alter your chemistry so that you can live better and longer, you might feel you have no choice. "Well, this is keeping me alive," you might say. "I don't yet have the ability to do this with my consciousness, so I take the drugs."

In this new energy, there is something else that you can try if you are in this category. Do the following with safety, intelligence, common sense and logic. Here is the challenge: The principle of homeopathy is that an almost invisible tincture of a substance is ingested and is seen by your innate. Innate "sees" what you are trying to do and then adjusts the body's chemistry in response. Therefore, you might say that you are sending the body a "signal for balance." The actual tincture is not large enough to affect anything chemically - yet it works!

The body [innate] sees what you're trying to do and then cooperates. In a sense, you might say the body is healing itself because you were able to give it instructions through the homeopathic substance of what to do. So, why not do it with a major drug? Start reducing the dosage and start talking to your cells, and see what happens. If you're not successful, then stop the reduction. However, to your own amazement, you may often be successful over time.

You might be able to take the dosage that you're used to and cut it to at least a quarter of what it was. It is the homeopathy principle and it allows you to keep the purpose of the drug, but reduce it to a fraction of a common 3D dosage. You're still taking it internally, but now it's also signaling in addition to working chemically. The signal is sent, the body cooperates, and you reduce the chance of side effects.

You can't put things in boxes of yes or no when it comes to the grand system of Spirit. You can instead use spiritual logic and see the things that God has given you on the planet within the inventions and processes. Have an operation, save your life, and stand and say, "Thank you, God, for this and for my being born where these things are possible." It's a complicated subject, is it not? Each of you is so different! You'll know what to do, dear one. Never stress over that decision, because your innate will tell you what is appropriate for you if you're willing to listen. ….”

(Subjects: Big pharma [the drug companies of America] are going to have to change very soon or collapse. When you have an industry that keeps people sick for money, it cannot survive in the new consciousness., Global Unity, ... etc.) - (Text version)

"THE BRIDGE OF SWORDS" – Sep 29, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: ... I'm in Canada and I know it, but I will tell those listening and reading in the American audience the following: Get ready! Because there are some institutions that are yet to fall, ones that don't have integrity and that could never be helped with a bail out. Again, we tell you the biggest one is big pharma, and we told you that before. It's inevitable. If not now, then in a decade. It's inevitable and they will fight to stay alive and they will not be crossing the bridge. For on the other side of the bridge is a new way, not just for medicine but for care. ....) - (Text Version)

He
previously had both his hands and feet amputated and had a kidney transplant
following a major infection.

The
smiling, precocious youngster had learned to eat, write and even play video
games without hands.

Now he says
he is looking forward to being able to throw a football with his own hands.

It took a
team of 40 doctors, nurses and other staff from plastic and reconstructive
surgery, orthopedic surgery, anesthesiology and radiology, to pull off the
pioneering surgery.

Surgeons
first painstakingly attached bone, then veins. Once the blood was circulating,
surgeons connected tendons, muscles and nerves.

"Zion's
kidney transplant following his infection made him a candidate for transplant
because he was already taking anti-rejection medication," said Benjamin
Chang, co-director of CHOP's Hand Transplantation Program.

Harvey is
receiving daily anti-rejection medications. Doctors said he should be able to
return home to Baltimore in a few weeks.

"This
surgery was the result of years of training, followed by months of planning and
preparation by a remarkable team," said L Scott Levin.

"The
success of Penn's first bilateral hand transplant on an adult, performed in
2011, gave us a foundation to adapt the intricate techniques and coordinated
plans required to perform this type of complex procedure on a child."

The first
bilateral hand and forearm transplant surgery was done in January 2000 in Lyon,
France.

Germany is
seven months into its new minimum wage, but not everyone is happy. The
government has now admitted that lobbyists from a number of different sectors
had urged it add exceptions to the new rule that no one in the country should
earn less than 8.50 euros ($9.40) an hour.

The
information, shown to DW on Thursday, emerged thanks to an official
parliamentary request by the German Left party. Particularly persistent were
representatives of the farmers' and newspaper publishers' associations, who met
government representatives a total of 15 times in the months leading up to the
law being passed in parliament.

The pressure
seems to have been effective - both the agriculture sectors and the newspaper
sectors won delays in implementing the minimum wage. Temporary farm-workers can
be paid below minimum wage unto the end of 2016, while newspaper deliverers can
be paid less until the end of 2017.

Nahles (right) had to defend the minimum wage against serious lobbying

Success or
failure?

"The
economic lobbyists have made sure that entire sectors have been left behind by
the minimum wage," Left party parliamentarian Michael Schlecht said in an
emailed statement. "Particularly the lobbyists of the publishers' and the
farmers' associations clearly felt a lot more need to speak to the government
during the lawmaking process."

"The
result is well known," he added. "Hundreds of thousands of people did
not benefit from the introduction of the minimum wage at the start of the
year."

But the
German Farmers' Association (BDV) don't think they gained much advantage.
"We were invited to hearings, like every interest group, and we think it's
legitimate to describe what happens in practice, in business," BDV
spokesman Michael Lohse told DW.

The farmers
also argued that the minimum wage will have a real impact on their business
when it comes into full effect for temporary workers during the 2017 harvest.

"We
analyzed that and communicated it - we will have to lose some production
abroad," Lohse said. "In Romania and Bulgaria they have a minimum
wage of one or two euros. Go shopping with your eyes open one day - there's
half a kilogram of cherries for 7.50 euros from Brandenburg, and you have two
kids who like to eat cherries, and you decide if you want cherries for 7.50
euros, or you buy the ones from Bulgaria for 3.50 euros. Then of course the
retailer turns round and tells the farmer I can't buy your cherries anymore.
Then production goes abroad and it will cost jobs - that's all we said. And
that's legitimate."

More
bureaucracy

Another
complaint against the minimum wage was the amount of bureaucracy involved. At
the end of June, Labor Minister Andrea Nahles, who drove the new minimum wage
legislation, bowed to pressure and eased the regulations forcing employers in
certain sectors to record how many hours their lowest paid workers were
working.

Cherries are cheaper in Bulgaria

Up until
then, the new minimum wage law stipulated that employers in the construction
and gastronomy sectors, and others considered to be particularly susceptible to
off-the-books work, had to document the number of hours logged by anyone
earning less that 2,958 euros a month. That cap has now been lowered to 2,000
euros a month.

But Lohse
was not happy with the whole new system. "If you have 100 or 200 people on
a field and one of them has to leave, you have to write that down," he
complained. "If they go home to have lunch, you have to document that - if
it rains, or there's a storm. There are special conditions during the harvest
time and these documentation obligations all take a heavy toll."

The
conservative sections of the government coalition - both Angela Merkel's
Christian Democratic Union and its Bavarian sister party the Christian Social
Union - have been pressing for corrections to the law.

But Nahles'
Social Democratic Party can also point to considerable successes - in May it
could announce that 3.7 million people in Germany had received a pay raise as a
result of the minimum wage, and that dependence on social benefits had
declined. Also, fears that the new law would lead to a sharp rise in
unemployment figures have so far proved untrue.

Paris (AFP)
- An Ebola test vaccine provided blanket protection in a field trial in Guinea,
said researchers Friday, possibly heralding "the beginning of the
end" for the devastating West African outbreak that has killed thousands.

The serum
was 100-percent effective, after a week, in more than 7,600 people innoculated,
according to results published in The Lancet and hailed as "extremely
promising" by World Health Organization (WHO) chief Margaret Chan.

Health
workers assist an Ebola patient at

the Kenema treatment centre in Sierra

Leone
run by the Red Cross Society, on

November 15, 2014 (AFP Photo/Francisco

Leong)

The world
was "on the verge of an effective Ebola vaccine," the UN's health
agency said in a statement.

"The
initial results of the study show that the vaccine can effectively contain the
further spread of the Ebola virus," said the University of Bern, which
contributed to the research.

Though
encouraging, the results are "interim" and the vaccine will not
become immediately available as a community-wide Ebola shield, experts
cautioned.

About
28,000 people have been infected in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia since late
2013, according to the WHO. Nearly half have died, but there is thought to be a
large undercount of cases and deaths.

Having
brought an already fragile health sector to its knees, and driving out
much-needed investment, the outbreak has started winding down but is not over.

Seven cases
were confirmed the week ending in July 26 -- four in Guinea and three in Sierra
Leone -- the lowest weekly total for over a year.

But even a
single undetected case can spark a flareup -- the virus spreads through direct
contact with body fluids.

"An
effective vaccine will be another very important tool for both current and
future Ebola outbreaks," said Chan.

Liberian
health workers burn clothes

belonging to patients at an Ebola clinic in

Monrovia, as the virus raged West Africa

in 2014 (AFP Photo/Pascal Guyot)

The trial,
backed by drug firm Merck, the WHO and the governments of Canada, Norway and
Guinea, saw 4,123 high-risk people vaccinated immediately after someone close
to the trial participant fell ill with the haemorrhagic fever.

None of the
vaccinated group caught the virus.

A second,
comparison group of 3,528 people received the vaccine three weeks after
potential exposure. Sixteen of them contracted the virus while unprotected,
said the study, but by day six after innoculation, everyone in the second group
was also fully shielded.

"Indeed,
no vaccinee developed symptoms more than six days after vaccination,
irrespective of whether vaccination was immediate or delayed," said the
study paper.

The vaccine
was safe, with no serious side-effects, according to the study.

Not known
is how long the protection lasts, or the vaccine's effect on pregnant women and
children -- high risk groups not included in the trial.

One of two
leading vaccine candidates, VSV-ZEBOV has been developed and tested in a
super-quick 12 months, compared to the normal decade or more. Ebola has no
licensed cure or treatment either.

Sierra
Leonean health officials check for

the Ebola virus on passengers at a border

crossing with Liberia in Jendema, on

March 28, 2015 (AFP Photo/Zoom Dosso)

'Very
exciting'

The Lancet
said the Guinea trial would continue gathering evidence of the VS-ZEBOV's
effectiveness and safety.

"The
vaccine is not yet licensed. More data on efficacy are needed before it can be
widely deployed," said an editorial in the medical journal.

Even then,
it may be better used not to try and prevent outbreaks, but to limit virus
spread once there is one, and for protecting healthcare workers -- the group at
highest risk.

"The
major problem is the very sporadic appearance of Ebola virus in outbreaks which
are unpredictable in terms of where and when they might next appear,"
Andrew Easton, a virology professor at the University of Warwick, told AFP.

And the
cost of mass vaccination to cover all eventualities would be prohibitive.

Disease
experts welcomed the results.

"This
is big news -- the most promising medical development so far in the ongoing
race to shut down Ebola," Benjamin Neuman, a virologist with the
University of Reading, told AFP.

Liberian
doctor Francis Kateh (right)

volunteered to receive a trial vaccine

against Ebola at Redemption Hospital on

the outskirts of Monrovia, on February 3,

2015
(AFP Photo/Zoom Dosso)

Added Peter
Smith of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, the results were
"very exciting and suggest that the Ebola vaccine tested may be highly
effective in protecting against Ebola disease among those in the immediate
vicinity of an Ebola case."

The trial
used a so-called "ring" approach -- the same used to eradicate
smallpox in Africa in the 1970s. First to be vaccinated are people who had been
in close contact with an Ebola patient, then those at a slightly more indirect
risk, and so on.

"Where
rings have been vaccinated... the transmission has stopped," WHO assistant
director-general Marie-Paule Kieny told journalists in Geneva.

"Prior
to the vaccination there were cases, cases, cases. The vaccination arrived, 10
days later no cases."

For one of
the trial researchers, Matthias Egger, the trial proved not only the
effectiveness of the vaccine, but also of the ring strategy.

"This
could finally be the beginning of the end of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa
and also be useful when combating this disease in the future," he said.

One of those times might be frightening for you to know about, since it was a full cooperation with Gaia for your termination, and a pandemic almost wiped humanity off the map. A pandemic! Now, you say, "What has that got to do with Human consciousness, Kryon?" Pay attention, dear ones, because this is the day where the teaching was given by my partner, and he put together the Nine Human Attributes. One of the attribute sets included three Gaia attributes and one of them was the consciousness of the planet. Gaia is related to Human consciousness!

Are you starting to connect the dots? You are connected to this planet in a profound and spiritual way. As goes humanity goes the planet's consciousness. Gaia, Mother Nature, whatever you want to call it, cooperates with Human consciousness. If you spend 1,000 years killing each other, then Gaia will do its best to cooperate with your desires! Gaia will look at Human consciousness and try to help with what you have shown you like to do! Did you know this role of Gaia with you? It's a partner with you, fast tracking what you give to it. You may wish to review what the indigenous of the planet still understand. Gaia is a partner!

Pandemic: Don't you find it odd that in the last 50 years, when you have a population of seven billion Human Beings, with up to 2,000 airplanes in the air at any given moment, going between almost every conceivable place, that there has not been a pandemic in your lifetime? There have been five starts of potential pandemics over the last 20 years, yet none became serious. Did any of you put this together? Dear ones, when the world was far less populated a few hundred years ago, with no mass travel to spread a virus, there were still millions wiped out by a pandemic. With the increased population and mass travel, there is far more danger today than before. It doesn't make sense, does it? What happened to stop it?

When you know humanity's relationship to Gaia, it makes sense. Gaia is a life-force that is your partner, watching you change the balance of light and dark and reflecting what Humans want. It has polarity, too! Perhaps it's time to start your meditations with thanking your planet Earth for supporting you in the spirituality of your Akash, for always being with you, a life-force that is always present. The ancients started their ceremonies in that way. Have you forgotten?

Ebola

Now, I've just set the stage for the next subject, haven't I? Ebola. Are you afraid yet? Gaia is a life-force that is a part of Human consciousness. My partner put it on the screen today so you could see the connections [during the lecture series]. Now it's time to connect the dots. Dear one, Gaia is in the battle, too, for here comes something scary that you haven't had in your lifetime and you're afraid of it - the potential of a pandemic on the planet.

There's a very famous film that has some dialogue that my partner will quote. Some of you will know it and some of you won't, but here it is: "Have a little fire, scarecrow?" What are you afraid of? Darkness? Gaia is in the battle with you and is actively pursuing solutions through light. The energy of the planet is with you in this fight! The ebola virus is a shock and a surprise. It is propelled by ignorance and fear, so it can flourish. Look at where it started and look at how it gets its ability to continue. It expands its fear and power easily with those who believe it's a curse instead of those who understand the science.Villages are filled with those who refuse to leave their family members because they believe the disease is a curse! FEAR! Instead of understanding that they should be in isolation from the virus, the family dies together through ignorance and fear. This represents how darkness works. Are you going to become afraid also? Dear ones, ebola will be conquered. Know this and be at peace. Pray for light for those in the villages who are afraid, that they can know more about how to keep the spread of this disease and live to see their families. .”

Friday, July 31, 2015

In the wake
of a string of food and drink safety scandals in China in recent years and
increasing scrutiny of food and drink products, many firms are promoting
organic products in the hope of profiting from increasingly health-conscious
consumers in the country, according to a report in Shanghai's National Business
Daily.

Liu Ping,
director of the Ministry of Agriculture's Green Food Development Center, was
cited by the paper as stating that demand for organic products in China has
been growing at 30% over recent years, which has fueled interest from firms
eager to profit on the trend.

Luzhou is
located in southern Sichuan and the red sorghum that grows on the fertile
purple soil there, used to make Luzhao Laojiao's liquor, contains a lot of
starch, making it very glutinous.

Products
can only be called organic in China if they meet rigorous national standards
governing the environmental conditions of the land in which raw ingredients are
grown. Luzhou Laojiao began to work towards organic sorghum planting in 2000,
starting with trials and finally gaining certification.

It is now
sorghum harvesting season and the head of production for Luzhou Red Sorghum
Modern Agricultural Development Company Tang Youcai says it took five to six
years for the sorghum to grow to head height. Luzhou Laojiao has signed
contracts with farmers occupying over 3,300 hectares of sorghum fields across
three counties in Luzhou. Only half of the sorghum produced ends up being
certified as organic, according to Tang.

Producing
organic baijiu is a relatively new field in China. One distiller tested the
waters back in 2008 and the market heated up after organic baijiu stole the
show at the 2010 Jinan Autumn Sugar and Liquor Exhibition.

Explosive
Growth

Organic
farming is already common in the wine industry. Recently the largest organic
wine producer in Bordeaux teamed up with wine distributer 1919, to launch
themselves on the Chinese market.

Conservationists in
Zimbabwe have accused an American man of being the alleged killer of Cecil, one
of Africa’s most famous lions and the star attraction at the Hwange national
park.

On Tuesday,
the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force said the man thought to have paid $50,000
(£32,000) for the chance to kill Cecil was not a Spaniard as originally believed, but US citizen Walter Palmer, from a small town near Minneapolis. The
man left the lion skinned and headless on the outskirts of the park, the ZCTF’s
Johnny Rodrigues said in a statement.

The hunt
took place around 6 July. “They went hunting at night with a spotlight and they
spotted Cecil,” Rodrigues said. “They tied a dead animal to their vehicle to
lure Cecil out of the park and they scented an area about half a kilometre from
the park.”

Walt Palmer, left, and one of his many trophies.

The hunter
first shot at Cecil with a bow and arrow but failed to kill the lion. “They
tracked him down and found him 40 hours later when they shot him with a gun,”
Rodrigues said.

A spokesman
for Palmer told the Guardian that the hunter was “obviously quite upset over
everything”.

“As far as
I understand, Walter believes that he might have shot that lion that has been
referred to as Cecil,” the spokesman said. “What he’ll tell you is that he had
the proper legal permits and he had hired several professional guides, so he’s
not denying that he may be the person who shot this lion. He is a big-game
hunter; he hunts the world over.”

On Tuesday,
Palmer - a dentist and married father of two - became a target as the Facebook
page of his dental clinic was flooded with angry comments and threats. An
online petition demanding justice for Cecil had gathered more than 12,000
signatures.

Palmer’s
love of hunting is well-documented online. In 2009, he was interviewed by the
New York Times about his slaying of an elk that was touted as a kill for the
archery record books.

Noting that
Palmer had learned to shoot at age five and was “capable of skewering a playing
card from 100 yards with his compound bow,” the article said Palmer had paid
$45,000 at auction to take part in the hunt, with the proceeds being used to
help fund the elk habitat. As the hunting season began, Palmer was on probation
for lying to authorities over the exact location where he had killed a black
bear in northern Wisconsin in 2006.

The same
company advertises trips to Africa, under the name Safari Connection.
Photographs to advertise the company’s services show hunters posed next to
elephants. Other expeditions show hunters posed next to polar bears amid snowy
backdrops.

Two people
who accompanied the hunter on his Zimbabwe trip were identified by authorities
and arrested earlier this month, including Theo Bronkhorst, the founder of
Bushman Safaris Zimbabwe which is believed to have organised the hunt. Both are
facing poaching charges and due to appear in court in early August.

Zimbabwe
National Parks confirmed the charges. “In this case, both the professional
hunter and land owner had no permit or quota to justify the offtake of the lion
and therefore are liable for the illegal hunt,” it said in a statement.
Bronkhorst’s hunting license has been suspended and efforts were being made to
interview another employee of Bushman Safaris who was believed to have also
taken part in the hunt.

The
13-year-old lion was wearing a GPS collar as part of an Oxford University
research project that had been running since 1999, making it possible to trace
his last movements. Rodrigues said the hunters tried to destroy the collar, but
failed.

Walt Palmer and a Nevada California Bighorn.

The death
of Cecil comes as Zimbabwe, like many countries in Africa, attempts to crack
down on illegal hunting and poaching, said Rodrigues. “This has been going on
too long. Cecil is the 23 or 24th lion that has been collared and then killed
in Hwange. We have to try and stop it.”

Initially
his organisation had said the whereabouts of Cecil’s head was unknown, sparking
concerns that it would be sent abroad as a trophy. The fear brought
conservationists and politicians together this week to call on the European
Union to ban the import of lion heads, paws and skins as hunters’ trophies from
African countries that cannot prove their lion populations are sustainable.

On Tuesday,
Rodrigues said the head of the lion had been located in Zimbabwe and had been
impounded to be used as evidence in the investigation.

The ZCTF
said on Tuesday that it continued to mourn Cecil. Rodrigues pointed out that
the hunter was believed to have paid just $50,000 to kill a creature that would
have brought millions of dollars worth of tourism to the reserve.

Conservation
authorities said they were also dealing with the likely consequences of Cecil’s
death for his six cubs. “The saddest part of all is that now that Cecil is
dead, the next lion in the hierarchy, Jericho, will most likely kill all
Cecil’s cubs so that he can insert his own bloodline into the females.”

Cecil was a
major tourist attraction at Zimbabwe's largest game reserve in

Question: Dear Kryon: I live in Spain. I am sorry if I will ask you a question you might have already answered, but the translations of your books are very slow and I might not have gathered all information you have already given. I am quite concerned about abandoned animals. It seems that many people buy animals for their children and as soon as they grow, they set them out somewhere. Recently I had the occasion to see a small kitten in the middle of the street. I did not immediately react, since I could have stopped and taken it, without getting out of the car. So, I went on and at the first occasion I could turn, I went back to see if I could take the kitten, but it was to late, somebody had already killed it. This happened some month ago, but I still feel very sorry for that kitten. I just would like to know, what kind of entity are these animals and how does this fit in our world. Are these entities which choose this kind of life, like we do choose our kind of Human life? I see so many abandoned animals and every time I see one, my heart aches... I would like to know more about them.

Answer: Dear one, indeed the answer has been given, but let us give it again so you all understand. Animals are here on earth for three (3) reasons.

(1) The balance of biological life. . . the circle of energy that is needed for you to exist in what you call "nature."

(2) To be harvested. Yes, it's true. Many exist for your sustenance, and this is appropriate. It is a harmony between Human and animal, and always has. Remember the buffalo that willingly came into the indigenous tribes to be sacrificed when called? These are stories that you should examine again. The inappropriateness of today's culture is how these precious creatures are treated. Did you know that if there was an honoring ceremony at their death, they would nourish you better? Did you know that there is ceremony that could benefit all of humanity in this way. Perhaps it's time you saw it.

(3) To be loved and to love. For many cultures, animals serve as surrogate children, loved and taken care of. It gives Humans a chance to show compassion when they need it, and to have unconditional love when they need it. This is extremely important to many, and provides balance and centering for many.

Do animals know all this? At a basic level, they do. Not in the way you "know," but in a cellular awareness they understand that they are here in service to planet earth. If you honor them in all three instances, then balance will be the result. Your feelings about their treatment is important. Temper your reactions with the spiritual logic of their appropriateness and their service to humanity. Honor them in all three cases.

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

US
regulations require drugmakers to report adverse events to the FDA within

15
days, but researchers at the University of Minnesota found that they

delayed
doing so in about one in 10 cases (AFP Photo/Philippe Huguen)

Washington
(AFP) - Drugmakers have delayed reporting serious and unexpected "adverse
events" from their drugs, including death, in nearly 10 percent of cases,
a study said Monday.

US
regulations require drugmakers to report such incidents to the Food and Drug
Administration within 15 days, but researchers at the University of Minnesota found
that they delayed doing so in about one in 10 cases.

"Strikingly,
AEs (adverse events) with patient death were more likely to be delayed,"
the study's authors said.

"It is
possible that manufacturers spend additional time in verifying reports concerning
deaths, but this discretion is outside the scope of the current regulatory
regime."

The study
appeared in JAMA Internal Medicine, whose editor said the delays exposed other
patients to serious risks.

"Such
reporting delays should never occur, as they mean that more patients are
exposed to potentially avoidable serious harm, including death," wrote the
journal's editor, Rita Redberg.

She
suggested that physicians who report on their patients' adverse reactions to
drugs should do so directly to the FDA, rather than to the manufacturer.

For the
study, Pinar Karaca-Mandic and her co-authors examined serious adverse event
reports submitted to the FDA between January 2004 and January 2014.

They found
that of 1.6 million reports, 160,383 were not received by the FDA within the
15-day time window.

Of those,
40,464 involved deaths of patients.

Besides
death, reports on serious adverse events also could involve cases that were
life-threatening, required hospitalization, resulted in disability or in birth
defects.

Monday, July 27, 2015

In the
Netherlands there seems to have been a rapid rise in incidents involving
"mentally confused" people. The reported number of such incidents
rose from 53,000 in 2013 to 60,000 last year and the Dutch are asking why.

A phone
rings and community psychiatric nurse Theo Eberson speeds to his car. The
police want him to assess the mental health of someone they've just
apprehended. When Eberson arrives at the police station, Brigadier Mike de Wit
explains that his team has brought in an English-speaking man who banged on
doors in the stairwell of an apartment block and then got into a fight with an
angry resident who asked him to leave.

"We
want to see if there's anything we can do for him," de Wit says.
"And, if there's really nothing we can do, we have to put him back on the
street."

De Wit
unlocks the door of the cell and lets Eberson in. Eberson explains that he
comes from the community health department and that he'd just like to talk to
the man. But the man barely responds. He's lying on a bench in the cell,
shivering and has difficulties keeping his eyes open.

Cases on
the rise

Eberson
tells the man that he's going to call an ambulance to take him to the emergency
ward at the hospital. De Wit is used to this routine. He says he has seen a
rise in the number of people causing public disturbances in recent years.

A symbolic picture of a board covered in mathematical formulas to indicate aconfused mind

The number
of "confused" people is on the rise and there is less help for them
in society

"My
experience is that it's increasing," de Wit says. "There are more
people who have to live on the streets and less help for confused people. In
the end, they're on the radar and they end up here."

This kind
of incident is not just common in Amsterdam. Throughout the Netherlands, police
reported 60,000 incidents involving confused people in 2014, a whopping 13
percent increase from the previous year. The incidents, they say, are varied -
perhaps a small house fire or a person who decided to park their car on a train
or a tram line. That's the kind of slightly out of the ordinary incident that
suggests that someone may have been suffering from some kind of mental
disturbance. The rapid rise has sparked a national debate on what's causing the
problem and how to solve it.

Cuts to
mental health care

Jacobine
Geel heads the mental health association GGZ Nederland and believes that one
reason behind the increase in reported incidents is that the government has
been making budget cuts in the field of mental health care. The Netherlands is
rapidly decreasing the number of beds it has available in psychiatric units in
favor of outpatient care.

"There
are more people who are vulnerable and who need some form of care," Geel
says. "Often these people are living in their own houses. Budget cuts mean
fewer places where these people can go to have something to do or to meet
people."

More
problematic, Geel says, is the speed with which the system has to reorganize.
Geel recognizes the need for reorganization but she is hoping the government
will give health care professionals more time in which to do so.

Fred Ter
Meer knows what Geel is talking about. He heads a group of mental health
institutions called Yulius, based in the city of Dordrecht. The group is
responsible for about 16,000 patients. Ter Meer says he's already cut 35 of 200
beds and will have to cut more.

"We've
never had a waiting list, but now it's growing quite fast," Ter Meer says.
"When you're on a waiting list, for sometimes three months, there's a big
chance you'll find yourself in a crisis situation. Available beds for these
people will continue to be cut until 2018. So, we're only halfway. And I'm very
worried about how we're going to manage in the future."

Geel adds
that economic problems have contributed to the increasing number of mentally
confused people.

Some point to the effects of global financial decline as a contributing factor to mental illness

"I
think the financial crisis of the past decade has caused problems for
individuals, and now those problems are really coming to light," Geel
says. "For instance, suppose that you're in a partnership and you lose
your job and then your partner loses his or her job and you have children. When
you're vulnerable to that stress, you can sink through the ice, as we say in
Dutch."

Geel says
constant images of conflict and wars on television screens and mobile phones have
also contributed to increased levels of stress for everyone. To find solutions,
Geel says, it's important to know more about those suffering from mental
confusion.

"Some
of these people probably do have a history of mental illness," Geel says.
"But a lot of them are probably just being crushed under the weight of a
very complex society. So we have to be very aware of the complexity and
diversity of this group and map it first before we start thinking about
solutions and how we can help."

'They don't
have solutions'

The term
"mental illness" can cover a very broad range of ills, and
"confused people" sounds even vaguer - so what does it really mean?
On the square outside her crisis center in Utrecht, community psychiatric nurse
Carina Stigter says that confused people are often in deep distress.

"Suicidal
thoughts, suicidal behavior, psychotic behavior and sometimes the abuse of
substances like alcohol and drugs," Stigter says. "What they all have
in common is that they don't have solutions to the situation that they're
dealing with. Or the people around them don't have solutions."

She thinks
that part of the problem - or at least an aggravation of these people's
distress - is when the police arrive to deal with what they deem a public
disturbance.

"They
are trained to deal with criminals and offenses," Stigter says. "And
they take these people into a police cell and treat them as a suspect. It
increases the suffering of these patients."

Deep
distress

That
happened to 19-year-old Felix, a slim and trendy young woman. At her home, she
explains in a quiet voice how she walked out of hospital for reasons she
prefers to keep private. Fearing that Felix might harm herself, hospital staff
called the police. She had just gotten home, she says, when two police cars drew
up and six officers stormed inside.

"They
jumped on me, handcuffed me and put me in the car," Felix says. "I
got angry. I shouted anything that came to mind - that I thought they were
idiots. I panicked. I felt I was being unfairly treated in my own home. "

Because of
her reaction, Felix was put into a cell.

"I had
to undress completely," Felix says. "I had to take off my wig, which
I wore at the time, and I found that very painful to deal with. There was no
explanation."

Felix says
she had to wait half an hour before people trained to work with mental health
patients came to see her.

"They
made me feel better and I settled down," Felix says. "I think that if
it'd been the other way around - that first the crisis service would have come
and then the police or no police at all - things would have been totally
different."

Changing
attitudes

Stigter,
the community psychiatric nurse, says she is trying to ensure that possible
patients receive mental health assistance before the police engage them. A year
ago she set up a program under which the police will contact her crisis service
if they're dealing with someone who's mentally confused before they try to
handle it themselves.

"Through
a structured-risk strategy, we make sure the people come here when they don't
need a police cell," Stigter says. "The relationship between the
mental health professionals and the police in Utrecht is very good, and that's
one of the success stories of this project."

In June,
Dutch Public Health Minister Edith Schippers announced that every municipality
should have a similar system in place by the end of this year. Despite this
move, Eberson, the nurse in Amsterdam, thinks that the Netherlands will have to
accept that mental illnesses will become more visible on the streets in to the
future.

"Now
we're closing down beds, which means there are more outpatients and more people
with psychiatric problems on the streets," Eberson says. "The
community has to get used to it and will get used to it."

Ter Meer,
of Yulius, says that would mean a big change for the Dutch, who are generally
accustomed to a relatively calm and quiet society.

"You
see a lot more confused people on the streets of Paris or London," Ter
Meer says. "But we're not used to it. So this is a big change for Dutch
society."

The change
is slowly altering Dutch attitudes to mental health in general - which is
perhaps fortunate because, until there is an integrated strategy to tackle this
problem, the reported rise in "mentally confused" patients could just
keep rising.

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